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Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
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A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.
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Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
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Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
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God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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